Targeting AOL, MCI Offers
Net Access for $14.95 a Month

Dow Jones Newswires

Updated March 5, 1998 4:35 p.m. ET

MCI Communications Corp. became the latest carrier to unveil an effort aimed at stealing customers away from America Online Inc. on Thursday, saying it will offer Internet-access service to its long-distance phone customers for a flat rate of $14.95 a month and to others for $19.95 a month.

MCI, of Washington, D.C., launched a national advertising campaign to promote the pricing. The campaign targets AOL, which last month announced a...